A. Love
B. childhood
C. Inexperience
D. Innocence
Related Mcqs:
- William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” explores ________________?
A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
B. The fall of Satan
C. The life of Blake
D. The history of London - Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience. - William Blake’s “Little Black Boy” advocates for __________________?
A. The abolition of slavery
B. The equality of all people
C. The innate brilliance of children
D. The beauty of common language - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
A. Narration
B. History
C. Persuasion
D. Oral Tradition - The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
A. Lacking in freshness and originality
B. Saddened
C. Double meaning
D. Blue-eyed - In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?
A. The European Magazine
B. New Poetry
C. The Tatler
D. The Rambler - In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
A. 1798
B. 1779
C. 1795
D. 1789 - In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,” William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?
A. To “amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols”
B. To “prolong the moment of contemplation”
C. To “counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language”
D. To “make poetry new”
